I am working on a teachable agent project, called Betty's Brain, which applies qualitative reasoning and concept mapping techniques to raise middle-school students' conceptual thinking skills.

  Current Environment

Try Betty's Brain at <http://macs1.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/betty/classes/>.

Paper

Leelawong, K., Wang, Y., Biswas, G., Vye, N., Bransford, B., and Schwartz, D., Qualitative 
Reasoning techniques to support Learning by Teaching: A Teachable Agent Project, (2001). <Draft: PDF Format>

Previous work

Leelawong, K. and Lyons, J., Coaching OOA/D: Learning to Build Object-Oriented Models with Minimal Programming, technical report (2000). <HTML FORMAT>

  Links

 Artificial Intelligence & Education

John R. Anderson
Pete Sanderson (Proposal)
Episodic Learner Model (ELM)
Applications of AI in Education

Java Sources

VisualAge Focuses on Swing
 Swing Overview

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Last Updated on March 10, 2000.

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